Watching "The Blacklist" last night they had an auction which included a 1943 D Bronze cent up. The auctioneer started the bidding at around $2 million and it closed at $3 million. But the twist was the auctioneer stated it was graded by PCGS. James Spader's character Redington was stealing it and when the time came to do so, it was in a 3 ring binder with a bunch of other coins. The close up showed it was not slabbed but in a plastic 2X2. Ooops! What coin related blunders have you watched on TV?
I'll have to go back and watch that one again, I don't remember it. Do you happen to have the season and episode handy?
I'm getting ditzy in my old age. If there are 23 eps. to a season it might be season 4. Watching 3-4 eps. a night has me a bit foggy.
On "The Curse of Oak Island" (the expert!) Gary Drayton dug up a coin with a square hole in the middle (Woo woo!). He identified it as European when in fact, it was Oriental.
I simply assume most everything on tv concerning coins is simply wrong. Even pawn stars. They had a shekel of Tyre on once and every single "fact" about them was wrong. The stupid thing is the truth was just as interesting! Why make up lies that aren't more entertaining than the truth? That is when I stopped watching pawn stars, and just assumed any other "coin stuff" on tv the writers will simply get wrong. Even Percy Jackson movies have the silver drachms gold for some reason. That writer is usually pretty decent about getting history right.
I remember the old westerns where a patron would throw a silver dollar on the bar. You heard the heft when it hit the bar. But then I've seen modern westerns where this happens and it sounds like an aluminum token hitting the bar.
I watched that episode the other day lol. On top of that Rick offered way less because the coin was "cleaned." And the coin looked completely fine. Really 99% of the viewers won't care. I just watch for the antiques.
There twins!!or at least they should be one makes all the money and the other rips off people well to make more money
Remember the episode when a person with a liberotas Americana and half disme came in that was intreasting.
From the size it looked to me like a half shekel not a shekel. He did over pay. And if the insurance company compensated the original owner, wouldn't they now have a claim on the coin? Another problem is there are lots of those shekels out there that are raw coins. How could they know that the one they bought was the one reported stolen and not one of the thousands of other raw shekels? Unless there were good images of the stolen one and it matched. Would you watch it if it wasn't staged? Week after week of them sitting around hoping that something interesting would walk in? In the meantime buying common everyday "stuff". Would you tune in to watch that?
The first episode of Narcos says that it takes place in 1989. And then it pans over some money. But wait! Those big-head $10s could NOT have been printed before 1992.
I can't think of a coin mistake but I can think of a postage stamp mistake. In the movie The Flying Leathernecks (1951), there's a letter that bears a stamp that wasn't issued until after the war.
I just tried that outside with a cull Peace Dollar (same size as Morgans and SLDs of the the time period) You’re right! It was loud and heavy and scratched the desk. Fortunately the desk is junk anyway and I’m taking it to the dump.
Follow up... Check out episode 100 (Season 5-Ep. 11) as it continues on about the 1943 D bronze cent but the mistakes are more glaringly obvious. The Denver Mint gets robbed by Redington.